By Eric Stock

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate leaders could release the Republicans proposed health care bill as early as Thursday.

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin told WJBC’s Scott Laughlin and Patti Penn nobody seems to knows what’s in the would-be replacement to the Affordable Care Act.

PODCAST: Listen to Scott and Patti’s interview with Durbin on WJBC.

“For goodness sakes, in a matter of five or six days, we are going to change the healthcare system of the United States of America and the people listening to this show have not seen one word of it,” Durbin said. “I haven’t seen a word of it. Most Republican Senators and those close to (Senator Majority Leader Mitch McConnell) haven’t seen it either.”

Durbin notes if just three out of the 52 Republican Senators refuse to vote for the health care repeal, it would force Republican leaders to go back to the drawing board.

“We need to do this in a transparent way, a bipartisan way – if three will step up and do that, then we can roll up our sleeves and do the right thing for America.”

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